I know you can backup 10 computers, we are trying to setup a solution for our church where we have several volunteers.
I'm wondering the best way to setup the users on the 6 or 7 computers we have. Would it be best to setup the general office staff with using the "guest" ID, and then setup a "volunteer" ID, or can I setup the volunteer to use 'guest' (in my reading it appeared that guest had access to all shares, and I would want to limit that access.
Hi Dick, I would reecommend to avoid using guest account at all, since it is not a good idea in the points of security and functionality. Leave it disabled on the server, otherwise you may experience strange access denied problems for other authenticated users accessing the shared folders. If you want to use one of the 10 allowed accounts as guest account, simply create a user with the same name on each of the PCs, assign identical passwords and create that on the console too with the wanted permissions. Best greetings from Germany Olaf
You can create 10 users on your home server. If you don't create one, Windows Home Server won't create one for you.
As for backups, by default Windows Home Server backs up the whole client PC, not just small sections (like the Documents and Settings folder).I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
Hi Dick, I would reecommend to avoid using guest account at all, since it is not a good idea in the points of security and functionality. Leave it disabled on the server, otherwise you may experience strange access denied problems for other authenticated users accessing the shared folders. If you want to use one of the 10 allowed accounts as guest account, simply create a user with the same name on each of the PCs, assign identical passwords and create that on the console too with the wanted permissions. Best greetings from Germany Olaf
Ken, I knew there was a limit of 10 computers, if I have several users on each computer.... does that mean (and please excuse my ignorance) I need to watch out for how many user ID's are on each computer to insure that I have enough users to go around, or do I create the user ID's on Home Server? For example, say there are 3 computers, each one with 8 old ID's (all different for different volunteer's) - but none are curently being used, will Home server create id's for them, or am I allowed to create the ID's of the users I want to have access (and they can login from any computer at the church)? For that matter, can I have some folks who login to a computer, but have no id? (example, if I need to backup their files, can I create a folder in a common location and have them share that folder so it too is backed up - or does it just grab everything from Documents and Settings?
Also - thank you Olaf for your great suggestions on security - I'm so glad I posted these questions before I got myself into trouble.
You can create 10 users on your home server. If you don't create one, Windows Home Server won't create one for you.
As for backups, by default Windows Home Server backs up the whole client PC, not just small sections (like the Documents and Settings folder).I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
